RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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allocate funding for government programs.
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create taxes on the income on all citizens.
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enforce laws on the behalf of all citizens.
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forbid states from placing limits on the rights of its citizens.
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Detailed explanation-1: -No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Detailed explanation-3: -14th Amendment-Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt.
Detailed explanation-4: -It established birthright citizenship, required ‘due process’ and ‘equal protection’ of the law for everyone, and put the federal government in the business of policing liberty. It removed race and ethnicity from the legal denition of American identity… “The 14th Amendment is felt by all of us, every day.
Detailed explanation-5: -The amendment’s first section includes several clauses: the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause.